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1 category · Named, not ranked

Freshsales

3Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

2 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Freshsales was named 1 time in Financial close manageme, where FloQast led with 60%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business22 of 87

under the label threshold

Mid-market23 of 68

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In financial close manageme · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Freshsales for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Financial close management	Accounting and close	0%	23 of 68	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by FloQast at 60%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Freshsales yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Freshsales across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative3 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Best for teams that want built-in calling and sales productivity” Perplexity Sonar · Financial close manageme · comparative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Freshsales, over the 3 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Freshsales was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Close3 of 31Not in the top three

Pipedrive3 of 31Not in the top three

Salesforce3 of 31Not in the top three

HubSpot3 of 30Not in the top three

Zoho CRM2 of 30Not in the top three

Fluid CRM1 of 31Not in the top three

Copper1 of 30Not in the top three

Microsoft Dynamics 3651 of 30Not in the top three

Zoho1 of 30Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Freshsales. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 3 of the 3 answers that named Freshsales and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com3

close.com2

crm.org2

larksuite.com2

zapier.com2

zeeg.me2

aibusinessinsider.org1

apparate.com.au1

bestautomationtoolsforbusiness.com1

blog.hubspot.com1

Seventeen of the seventeen domain citations in answers naming Freshsales came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

zeeg.me/en/blog/post/close-crm-review2

aibusinessinsider.org/close-vs-pipedrive-vs-hubspot-20261

apparate.com.au/blog/reasons-not-buy-close1

bestautomationtoolsforbusiness.com/blog/close-pros-and-cons-guide-20261

blog.hubspot.com/sales/sales-engagement1

blog.salesflare.com/top-crm-tools1

business.com/categories/crm-software1

busyworth.com/compare/best-crm-small-business1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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